Lamentations 3:48
Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
In Context
47Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
49Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
Cross References
Psalms 137:1Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Jeremiah 9:1Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 13:17But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down the tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.
Lamentations 1:16Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water: because the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed.
Lamentations 2:18Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →